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most citedLow-voltage broadband hybrid plasmonic-vanadium dioxide switches

121 citations · 535 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2023★ 18 cited

Implantable Photonic Neural Probes with 3D-Printed Microfluidics and Applications to Uncaging

Xin Mu, Fu-Der Chen, Ka My Dang +10

Advances in chip-scale photonic-electronic integration are enabling a new generation of foundry-manufacturable implantable silicon neural probes incorporating nanophotonic waveguid…

physics.optics2022★ 31 cited

Microcantilever-integrated photonic circuits for broadband laser beam scanning

Saeed Sharif Azadeh, Jason C. C. Mak, Hong Chen +11

Laser beam scanning is central to many applications, including displays, microscopy, three-dimensional mapping, and quantum information. Reducing the scanners to microchip form fac…

physics.optics2022★ 111 cited

Monolithically integrated, broadband, high-efficiency silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors in a visible-light integrated photonics platform

Yiding Lin, Zheng Yong, Xianshu Luo +8

Visible and near-infrared spectrum photonic integrated circuits are quickly becoming a key technology to address the scaling challenges in quantum information and biosensing. Thus…

physics.optics2021★ 106 cited

Power-Efficient Silicon Nitride Thermo-Optic Phase Shifters for Visible Light

Zheng Yong, Hong Chen, Xianshu Luo +7

We demonstrate power-efficient, thermo-optic, silicon nitride waveguide phase shifters for blue, green, and yellow wavelengths. The phase shifters operated with low power consumpti…

physics.optics2021★ 53 cited

Optical phased array neural probes for beam-steering in brain tissue

Wesley D. Sacher, Fu-Der Chen, Homeira Moradi-Chameh +13

Implantable silicon neural probes with integrated nanophotonic waveguides can deliver patterned dynamic illumination into brain tissue at depth. Here, we introduce neural probes wi…

physics.app-ph2020★ 2 cited

Observation of photoelectric nonvolatile memory and oscillations in VO2 at room temperature

Youngho Jung, Junho Jeong, Zhongnan Qu +4

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a phase change material that can reversibly change between high and low resistivity states through electronic and structural phase transitions. Thus far,…

physics.optics2016

Pattern Formation in Double-Layer Kerr Resonators with Coupled Modes

Antoine Bois, Joyce K. S. Poon

A double-layer Kerr resonator in which both coupled modes are excited and interact with each other via incoherent cross-phase modulation is investigated to reveal stable localized…

quant-ph2016★ 5 cited

Integrated Silicon Photonic Transmitter for Polarization-Encoded Quantum Key Distribution

Chaoxuan Ma, Wesley D. Sacher, Zhiyuan Tang +5

We present a silicon optical transmitter for polarization-encoded quantum key distribution (QKD). The chip was fabricated in a standard silicon photonic foundry process and integra…

physics.optics2015★ 84 cited

Automatic Resonance Alignment of High-Order Microring Filters

Jason C. C. Mak, Wesley D. Sacher, Tianyuan Xue +3

Automatic resonance alignment tuning is performed in high-order series coupled microring filters using a feedback system. By inputting only a reference wavelength, a filter is tune…

physics.optics2012★ 121 cited

Low-voltage broadband hybrid plasmonic-vanadium dioxide switches

Arash Joushaghani, Brett A. Kruger, Suzanne Paradis +3

Surface plasmon polaritons can substantially reduce the sizes of optical devices, since they can concentrate light to (sub)wavelength scales. However, (sub)wavelength-scale electro…

physics.optics2012★ 4 cited

Breaking the cavity linewidth limit of resonant optical modulators

Wesley D. Sacher, William M. J. Green, Solomon Assefa +5

Microring optical modulators are being explored extensively for energy-efficient photonic communication networks in future high-performance computing systems and microprocessors, b…